Mitt Romney: Obama should get no credit for fixing economy

Mitt Romney abandoned his campaign bus briefly to take a boat trip up the Mississippi River in this eastern Iowa town, his second stop on day four of his five-day tour of six battleground states.

As he has at other stops on his itinerary, Romney used the occasion to hammer President Barack Obama on the economy. But it’s tougher to hit home his message in Iowa, which is doing better economically than other key swing states. Among other things, Iowa’s unemployment rate is currently 5.2 percent—several points lower than the national average.

As he has in recent days, Romney tweaked his stump speech a bit to acknowledge the reality that the economy has shown signs of improvement since Obama took office in 2009. But, speaking to a small group of supporters on “The Spirit of Dubuque,” Romney said Obama doesn’t deserve credit for any recovery.

“He doesn’t understand how the policies he put in place made it harder for this economy to recover,” Romney said. “And so today, I hope things are getting better. I think they are, the economy. I sure hope so. But it’s no thanks to him. It’s in spite of him.”

Yeah because the economy was doing so gosh darned well before Obama got elected, the no good Commie just came in and tanked everything!

Tell me how any of Obama’s policies are worse than the LACK of policies that got us into the financial mess in the first place.

Also, if you are trying to appeal to the average American, does it really make sense to campaign on a giant boat adorned with American flags?